2nd Lt George Lesko, co-pilot of the B-24 41-29177 “Ginger”, took off from Bungay in Suffolk, UK on a bombing mission over the Farben chemical works in Ludwigshafen. Just after bombs away, the plane was hit by flak. One of the engines cut out, dropping the plane to 10000 feet. The crew set the plane on a course to avoid the nearby town of Schoeneck and bailed out, shot at by machine gun fire all the way down. Lesko was captured and sent to a POW camp where he plotted to skate across the Baltic to freedom, but reality and the end of the war prevented his daring escape.